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LibriVox recording of Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, edited by Charles W. Eliot. Read by volunteer readers.
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates." (Summary by DSayers)
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This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
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Artist/Composer: Various
Date: 2012-01-31
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; literature; William Caxton; John Calvin; Nicolaus Copernicus; John Knox; Edmund Spenser; Sir Walter Raleigh; Francis Bacon; John Heminge; Henrie Condel; William Shakespeare; Sir Isaac Newton; John Dryden; Henry Fielding; Samuel Johnson; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; William Wordsworth; Victor Hugo; Walt Whitman; H. A. Taine
Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal
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| 00 - Introductory Notes |
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| 01 - Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 1 |
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| 02 - Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 2 |
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| 03 - Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion |
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| 04 - General Syllabus |
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| 05 - Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies |
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| 06 - Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland |
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| 07 - Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene |
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| 08 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 1 |
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| 09 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 2 |
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| 10 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 3 |
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| 11 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 4 |
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| 12 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 1 |
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| 13 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2 |
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| 14 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3 |
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| 15 - Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays |
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| 16 - Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica |
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| 17 - Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 1 |
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| 18 - Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 |
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| 19 - Preface to Joseph Andrews |
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| 20 - Preface to the English Dictionary, Part 1 |
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| 21 - Preface to the English Dictionary, Part 2 and To the Earl of Chesterfield |
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| 22 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 1 |
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| 23 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2 |
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| 24 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3 |
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| 25 - Introduction to The Propylaen. |
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| 26 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 1 |
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| 27 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 2 |
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| 28 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 3 |
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| 29 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 4 |
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| 30 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 5 |
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| 31 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 1 |
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| 32 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 2 |
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| 33 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 3 |
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| 34 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 4 |
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| 35 - Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 1 |
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| 36 - Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2 |
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| 37 - Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 1 |
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| 38 - Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2 |
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